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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 21d

Video of our launch of Rituals of Migration @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social is now up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qh1...
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Launch of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move

YouTube video by Glucksman Ireland House NYU

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 2d

Just returned from SF where I went with my cousins & their kids to explain the history of Angel Island immigrant landing depot. It's an island off of SF, look how close it is to SF, yet for detained immigrants who were there, it was a world away to getting to the US. Was in operation 1910-1941. 1/

Angel Island in the distance in the water, photo taken from a San Francisco scenic point with a few other tourists.

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 2d

"The Objects That Immigrants Packed Tell a Story About What It Meant to Leave Home Forever." @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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The Objects That Immigrants Packed Tell a Story About What It Meant to Leave Home Forever

A new collection co-edited by NYU scholar Kevin Kenny explores the things Irish and Italians carried with them to the New World during historic waves of migration

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 2d

Register for a joint IEHS-OAH online event on denaturalization!

Join us and @oah.org for an online event on denaturalization featuring IEHS members TODAY, October 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM ET.

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: A History of Denaturalization. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join us for a conversation with OAH-IEHS members on the history of denaturalization in the United States. The Naturalization Act of 1906 introduced denaturalization as a legal mechanism, allowing the ...

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 3d

***UCLA Mapping Deportations Project***

Mapping Deportations, an educational resource uses maps, data, and a timeline to unmask the relationship between race and immigration enforcement throughout U.S. history.

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Mapping Deportations – U.S. Immigration Control since 1790

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 3d

***New post in our blog, Not from Here***

Sites of Spectacle and Sites of Sacrifice: Mapping the Ministries of 19th Century Female Preachers by @csgreer.bsky.social

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Sites of Spectacle and Sites of Sacrifice: Mapping the Ministries of 19th Century Female Preachers

This work is funded in part by the IEHS Digital History Seed Grant. There are a million ways to read a historical source, and I have been interested in early 19th-century female preachers for so lo…

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 3d

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.

More details here: iehs.org/awards/

Awards Overview

Visit the post for more.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 3d

Dear IEHS members:

This is a reminder that the Nominations Committee is soliciting nominations for three new board members, whose terms will run from 2026 to 2029.

Please email your suggestions for nominees by 10/17 to Adam Goodman at [email protected]

Thank you,
Nicole Greer Golda
IEHS Secretary

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 6d

Great photo!

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 6d

Moment of Reflection - #NewYorkCity #FridayPhoto 🗃️📷📸

Series of reflections in windows of car and people in a hallway.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 9d

***Emmy Nomination for IEHS member***

Congratulations to @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social for having an episode he co-wrote and co-hosted for PBS Wisconsin Education nominated for the Emmy Award in the category for Outstanding Achievement for Children/Youth/Teens!

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How Did Early Airplane Pilots Navigate Without Modern Tech? | The Look Back | PBS LearningMedia

How did airplane pilots know where to fly before they had GPS to help guide them? Airplanes are more than just a way to get from one place to another quickly—they are historical artifacts! To keep tho...

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 10d

Check out a FREE article of Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ):

"'As bad as anybody else': The Innocents, Political Violence, and the Creole-Italian Alliance in Reconstruction New Orleans" by Christopher Joseph Cook

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“As bad as anybody else”: The Innocents, Political Violence, and the Creole-Italian Alliance in Reconstruction New Orleans

Abstract. Coordinated, violent political attacks increased throughout the months leading up to the 1868 presidential election in New Orleans and the surrounding area. Among the various Democratic orga...

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 13d

***Awards from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS)***

The IEHS offers a number of awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.

Visit the awards page for details regarding all 2025-26 awards, including deadlines.

iehs.org/awards/

Awards Overview

Visit the post for more.

iehs.org

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 13d

***Fall Online Book Event***

Join us on Tuesday, October 28 at 4:15 PM EDT for the next online book event with @greeneland.bsky.social and Brendan A. Shanahan. Michael Salgarolo will moderate the discussion.

Register here: iehs.org/event/online...

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 14d

Very much looking forward to discussing "Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery" with @rbatzell.bsky.social, Lara Vapnek, Richard Price, and & Naomi R. Willians in @lawcha.bsky.social's 2025 Labor Book Big Forum, Friday, October 17, 2pm to 4pm ET online ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Registration details for Friday, October 17, 2pm to 4pm ET: https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/FCXIyoNuQf6R3AA-ymF2uA#/registration

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 14d

***Attention graduate students***

Apply to the George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award!

IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations on U.S. immigration, emigration, or ethnic history.

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George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 16d

***New OAH lecturers***

Congratulations to Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) members Adrian De Leon and Omar Valerio-Jimenez for being selected to the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Lectureship Program!

OAH Lecturers can be booked online:

www.oah.org/lectures/con...

OAH | Contact the Distinguished Lectureship ProgramOAH | Contact the Distinguished Lectureship Program

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Glucksman Ireland House NYU @gihnyu.bsky.social · 16d

We're so excited to have @sineadgleeson.bsky.social at GIH this Thursday to discuss her novel "Hagstone" in conversation with Douglas Stuart.

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations, Gautham, on this important and timely work.

Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 17d

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 17d

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 18d

Here it is, my 243rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

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#ScholarSunday Thread 243 (9/28/25) - Black and White and Read All Over

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you, Kathleen!

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 20d

Be sure to check out the new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History on "Immigration and Citizenship" co-edited by @irpinaingiro.bsky.social and @migrantherstory.bsky.social:

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Volume 44 Issue 4 | Journal of American Ethnic History | Scholarly Publishing Collective

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Kathleen Lenihan @kathleenlenihan.bsky.social · 20d

If your family history research involves Irish and Italian emigration, Rituals of Migration nyupress.org/978147982513... belongs on your bookshelf. #genealogy

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 20d

p.s. My essay on the Wounded Knee massacre can be found here (open access!):

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Of Memory and Massacre: A Soldier's Firsthand Account of the “Affair on Wounded Knee” on JSTOR

Karl Jacoby, Of Memory and Massacre: A Soldier's Firsthand Account of the “Affair on Wounded Knee”, The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Winter 2003), pp. 333-362

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Cian T. McMahon, PhD @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social · 21d

What a fun night! Thanks to our fantastic hosts at @gihnyu.bsky.social

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 22d

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.

Visit the awards page for details regarding all 2025-26 awards, including deadlines.

iehs.org/awards/

Awards Overview

Visit the post for more.

iehs.org

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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · 22d

Commentaries will be provided by Lara Vapnek (St. John’s University), Kevin Kenny (@kevinkenny.bsky.social) (New York University), Richard Price (University of Maryland), and Naomi Williams (Rutgers). Julie Greene (@greeneland.bsky.social) will moderate.

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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · 22d

We are excited to announce Labor's Big Book Forum for 2025! Scheduled for Fri 10/17, 2-4pm ET via Zoom, this year we feature Rudi Batzell's (@rbatzell.bsky.social) new book: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social)

A flier that says: 2025 Labor Big Book Forum; Friday Oct 17 2-4 ET ; Register Today! with the link: go.umd.edu/LaborBigBook2025 ; and has a picture of the book "Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery" which features four sets of raised fists, alternating between red and blue.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 23d

New article from IEHS members Naoko Wake and @michaelrjin.bsky.social in the @historians.org American Historical Review:

Surviving the Bomb in Diaspora: Intergenerational Suffering and Justice-Seeking Among Korean Pihaeja

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Surviving the Bomb in Diaspora: Intergenerational Suffering and Justice-Seeking Among Korean Pihaeja

Abstract. Uncovering the voices of the Korean diasporic atomic bomb survivors across multilingual and transimperial spaces in archives and memories in East

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